Word: school
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, Byrne, the Chicago school board and state officials were scrambling to put together an emergency loan package to keep the schools from collapsing. Shut out of the bond market in November because of a poor rating, the educational system faces a shortfall of $459 million by the end of the fiscal year on Aug. 31, 1980. It needs $190 million just to keep going through January...
DIED. Murray Gurfein, 72, federal judge who rejected the Nixon Administration's 1971 suit to block the New York Times's publication of the Pentagon papers; of a heart attack; in New York City. An affable, erudite New Yorker, Gurfein graduated from Harvard Law School in 1930 and became a chief aide to Thomas E. Dewey, then special state rackets prosecutor, later New York's Governor. He served as one of the prosecutors at the 1946 Nuremberg war crimes trials, practiced law privately for 25 years, and was nominated by President Nixon as a judge...
...unfortunate result is to create two stereotypes where one is more than enough. The characterization nevertheless has its uses. Adani sends a class operator to California to make a deal with Farber. He bears the elegant name of Guy Barrere and a resume that includes the Columbia University School of Journalism and Rolling Stone...
...back in 1961, young Jim Gabler came home from high school in Hawkins, Texas, and told his parents that he was bothered by his history textbook. When his father, Mel, read the book, Our Nation's Story, he was more than bothered; he was outraged. In a chapter on the U.S. Constitution, the book puffed up the powers of the Federal Government but minimized states' rights. Recalls Gabler: "It was teaching that Washington has complete dictatorial power...
...censors," argues Mel, adding, "only people with authority can censor." The Gablers simply make their views available to school board members and concerned parents, Norma explains. "They could read the books themselves but for us to read them will save hundreds of hours of time. If you don't read them line by line, you miss the most deadly or damaging content...